Summer Programs for Pre-Law Students
Pathways Scholars Program is an 8-week intensive summer research program for upper-level undergraduate students who show a strong interest in research.
Summer Programs for Minority and Under-Represented Students
- Florida State University College of Law Summer for Undergraduates Program is a month-long program designed to encourage students to pursue careers in the legal profession.
- Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives prepares these students for the rigors of law school.
- University of Iowa College of Law's Philip G. Hubbard Law School Preparation Program supports diversity in the legal profession by providing students from groups historically under-represented in the law with the skills and assistance that will strengthen their preparation for law school.
- Santa Clara Law's Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) Program has extended its application deadline to April 30!
- Chicago-Kent School of Law's Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) Program is a four-week paid summer institute which introduces participants to law school and the legal profession.
- TRIALS - New York University Law and Harvard Law Schools are sponsoring a residential scholarship program to help talented and motivated undergraduates of modest means earn acceptance to the nation's leading law schools.
- The Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) is a non-profit project of the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education to expand opportunities for minorities and low-income students to attend law school. CLEO also offers a six-week, rigorous pre-law preparatory summer institute that has been held on ABA-accredited law school campuses across the country for over 35 years.
- The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program brings minority students to Washington DC for 9 weeks where they work in congressional offices and learn about health policy.
- The American Law Institute offers a list of links to minority, national, state, and local bar associations which may offer scholarship or summer internship opportunities for low-income and minority pre-law students.
- Summer Opportunities for Undergraduate Minority Students provides a free resource guide to scholarships, fellowships, and summer internships in law, medicine, social sciences, and other fields.